But Beautiful - The photographs of Robert Adams YouTube video by Still Life - art, painting, photography

Here's a video about the work of Robert Adams. Have a look if you have ten minutes to spare:

youtube.com/watch?v=NLRA...

desert snapshots
two chollas
joshua tree national park
4.20.26

#photography
#blackandwhite
#monochrome
#joshuatreenationalpark

Buoy Junction
Ondu pinhole 6x6 pocket
Fomapan 100
#pinholephotography #filmphotography #believeinfilm #pinhole

A high-contrast, black and white photograph of long, thin aquatic grass swaying on the surface of dark, rippling water. The grass appears as delicate, luminous white strands that flow diagonally from the bottom left toward the upper right. Light catches the edges of the water's surface ripples and the submerged blades, creating a textured, ethereal effect against the deep, shadowy depths of the water. The composition is moody and abstract, emphasizing movement and the play of light on organic forms.

grass

#MarginalWaters #Photography #ECK #ClassicMono #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Lumix

A side view of two windows on the stucco wall of an old building.

La maison du pressoir (old cider-press building)
📷Diana 151
🎞️Fomapan 400
#filmphotography

A black-and-white photograph of a beach with waves breaking on it; an oil tanker is visible on the slanted horizon.

#Photography #peakoil #seascape #Crete #monochrome #ClassicMono #bnwphotography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
Uneven balance

The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalog indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. This is not to say that he is unconcerned with the truth.

Robert Adams from 'Beauty in Photography'

I'm liking these diptychs and triptychs. Interesting work. Well done.

today on dt:

#photography
#blackandwhite
#monochrome
#joshuatreenationalpark

broken ironwood deserttopographics.com/2026/04/20/b...

desert snapshots
cholla and power pylon
4.20.26

I've never cared for 16:9 so of course I had to play with it to see what I could come up with. It can be ok, but I'm still not impressed.

#photography
#blackandwhite
#monochrome
#joshuatreenationalpark

Polaroid Week — celebrating instant film and the global community behind it.

#polaroidweek @polaroidweek #BelieveInFilm

Wet night in Moabit. Der Himmel uber Berlin with the Siegersulle glowing over the Tiergarten

color snapshots
ironwood stump detail
4.19.26

#photography
#snapshotphotography
#joshuatreenationalpark

Photography in your metaphorical back yard is at the same time a delight and a challenge. Revisiting places again and again as the seasons change and the light shifts.
Here in Tick Fen this corrugated hut is a constant Fenland Muse.

#believeinfilm

A black and whit Polaroid photo with a slightly warm tone of a couple of bare winter trees in a pasture. The foreground tree and untamed branches fill much of the frame. The image has been damaged on purpose by soaking it in water for several days.

Destroying Polaroids is actually rather therapeutic. #polaroid

My pleasure. I think good work deserves to be seen.

Robert Adams on Working at Home and Photography as Metaphor (2009) "By definition art is not propaganda; the goal is not to excite people to action but to help them find a sense of wholeness and thereby a sense of calm." Excerpt from a 2014 Hasselblad Award chat t...

A short piece on questions asked of Robert Adams

americansuburbx.com/2014/11/robe...

In my opinion one of the best color photographers

Nancy Rexroth, Doorway, Pomeroy, Ohio, 1970

desert snapshots
ironwood skeletons
joshua tree national park
4.18.26

#photography
#blackandwhite
#monochrome
#joshuatreenationalpark
#wilderness

Places to go. Street observation in Old Nice. #photography #streetphotography #blackandwhite #Leica #France

A black and white half frame photograph of a dry stone wall viewed through wooden agricultural gates.

Agricultural boundaries - Working Landscape - Lake District Observations

📷Pentax 17
🎞️Ilford FP4 - DD-X

#believeinfilm #filmphotography

today on dt:

ironwood skeleton - joshua tree national park deserttopographics.com/2026/04/18/i...

#photography
#blackandwhite
#monochrome
#joshuatreenationalpark

Butcher. North Dakota, March 2026 #aowsimages #blackandwhite #photography

👍

color snapshots
broken - colorado desert, california
4.16.26

It's not always bright sun and harsh contrast out here in the desert. Some days are pretty dull and gray. I like color on days like this.

A photograph showing a flat rock lying on a bed of layered rock. The flat rock is centered near the top of the photo. Light is at a low angle from the top. The photo is in high contrast.

—
Rock on Rock
—
#blackandwhite #classicmono #ECK #WCK

A black and white photo of the top section of a water tower. The top of the tower is round in shape and appears to be made of metal panels. The image is grainy with high contrast, the result of the infrared film and the developing process.

Water Tower. Kodak HIE infrared film. #filmphotography #infraredfilm #expiredfilm

jean-christophe béchet
#streetphoto #francenord #colorphoto

A set of three black and white half frame photographs of an old tree taken in portrait mode with long, twisted extended branches going from left to right in the foreground. The undulating, expansive Lake District fells follow the the reach of the branches in the background.

Branching out - Lake District Observations

📷Pentax 17
🎞️Ilford FP4 DD-X

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #FP4Party #fridayfavourites